A review of the recent applications of aluminum nitride-based piezoelectric devices

ST Haider, MA Shah, DG Lee, S Hur - Ieee Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric materials have attracted considerable attention over the last two decades
because many technologies utilize their core properties of piezoelectric materials. Previous …

Capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers for intravascular ultrasound imaging

J Wang, Z Zheng, J Chan, JTW Yeow - Microsystems & …, 2020 - nature.com
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a burgeoning imaging technology that provides vital
information for the diagnosis of coronary arterial diseases. A significant constituent that …

Small blind-area, high-accuracy ultrasonic rangefinder using a broadband multi-frequency piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer array

G Luo, K He, Y Wang, W Zhou, K Chen… - Measurement …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a broadband ultrasonic rangefinder, with merits of a small blind area
and high accuracy, based on a multi-frequency piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic …

Tent-plate AlN PMUT with a piston-like shape under liquid operation

E Ledesma, I Zamora, A Uranga… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, a waterproof tent-plate piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer
(PMUT) with enhanced performance as actuator and sensor in comparison with standard …

Resonant Inertial Mass Sensing for VOCs—CMOS-Compatible SoC Integration Advantages and Challenges: A Review

R Perelló-Roig, J Verd, S Bota… - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have gained the biomedical community's attention
given their relevance in exhaled human breath analysis for noninvasive disease diagnosis …

AlN piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer array monolithically fabricated on top of pre-processed CMOS substrates

E Ledesma, I Zamora, F Torres… - … Conference on Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 6× 6 AlN piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUT)
array with competitive performance as an actuator and as sensor compared with other …

Squared PMUT with enhanced pressure sensitivities

E Ledesma, I Zamora, F Torres, A Uranga, V Tzanov… - Proceedings, 2018 - mdpi.com
This study presents a squared AlN piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer
(PMUT). Using this PMUT greater level of output pressure and higher reception sensitivity …

AlN PMUT with crossed-cavity for better acoustic pressure outputs in liquid at high frequency

E Ledesma, V Tzanov, I Zamora… - … Conference on Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel AlN PMUT compatible with CMOS-MEMS process is presented. The design is a
squared membrane with 4 different sections. The operational frequency of the device in …

Fully integrated CMOS-PMUT transceiver

I Zamora, E Ledesma, A Uranga… - 2018 25th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present a full-transceiver (transmitter and receiver) intended to excite and
amplify the signal coming from an ultrasonic transducer. The transducer is basically a …

Energy Detector Based on MEMS-CMOS Co-Design for Wake-Up Receivers

J Liu, M Qiu, F Lin, Q Huang, S Liu… - 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel resonant energy detector (RED) based on MEMS-CMOS co-
design for wake-up receivers (WuRX) so as to improve the anti-interference capability …